Tag: food

Although rice is the staple food of Japan, eaten with almost every meal, the Japanese are no slouches when it ...

In my Twitter feed I post various things, including new items added to the J-List site, random anime pictures I've ...

Every once in a while I'm reminded suddenly that...I live in Japan. It could be a sudden earthquake causing my ...

One thing about Japan: they love vending machines. There are more of them here than any other country on Earth ...

The 49th "Taiga Drama" -- the big budget jidai geki period drama put on by Japan's public broadcasting network NHK ...

There are a lot of good things about living in Japan. Good food, from sushi to sashimi to Indian curry. ...

Like many other English speaking gaijin, I came to Japan as a teacher of ESL, imparting my native language to ...

There are times when Japanese as a language is surprisingly easy. While poor Japanese people have to memorize the names ...

The other day I was at the local hot springs bath, washing myself after getting a haircut. (Barber shops located ...

The other day I wrote about what Japanese people do when they catch colds, including strange things like wrapping leeks ...

Living in Japan teaches you many things. You learn to park your car in impossibly small spaces, and increase your ...

When I first arrived in Japan 19 years ago, I brought a lot of preconceived notions with me. Like, the ...

One of the defining features of the Japanese is their love for the "four" seasons and the unique qualities of ...

Rushing this update out a bit today, since the J-List crew is going out to an izakaya for the official ...

Like many Japanese families, my wife's parents live with us in one big house, occupying the lower floor while we ...

Japan's first Hooters location opens today in Tokyo, and the Japanese Internets are buzzing about the new restaurant, where food ...

Although I enjoy all manner of Japanese foods from sushi to sashimi to oyako-don (literally, "parent-and-child rice bowl" consisting of ...

I noticed that Japan had been officially ranked 97th in gender equality by the World Economic Forum, comparing to the ...

Getting Pizza Hut in Japan is always a treat: it is delicious, featuring toppings you can't get anywhere else like ...

I saw there was an 8-car pile-up on a freeway in Osaka a few days ago, which resulted in three ...

Japan is unique among industrialized nations in that the concept of tipping never caught on, and is in fact about ...

Autumn is here, and that means the return of nikuman (niku-mahn), those delicious Chinese steamed buns that they sell in ...

The other day my son had a holiday from school, so I took him to one of our favorite restaurants ...

J-List always stocks hundreds of awesome Japanese bento boxes for you, like the classic Hello Kitty traditional bento box, or ...